Witchcraft mythologies and persecutions(
Book
)12
editions published
in
2008
in
English
and held by
100 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
14 studies examine witchcraft from an anthropological perspective, including deciphering the variety of myths and the complexity
of historical processes which lead to the formation of the witches' Sabbath, and the micro-historical analysis of the social,
religious, legal and cultural milieu where witchcraft accusations and persecutions developed

Christian demonology and popular mythology by Éva Pócs(
Book
)17
editions published
between
2006
and
2007
in
English
and held by
59 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
This is the second volume of a series of three, containing seventeen essays of altogether forty-three articles based on the
topics of the interdisciplinary conference held on "Demons, spirits, and witches" in Budapest. Recognized historians, ethnologists,
folklorists coming from four continents present the latest research findings on the relationship, coexistence and conflicts
of popular belief systems, Judeo-Christian mythology and demonology in medieval and modern Europe. After a first volume, published
in 2005, on "Communicating with the Spirits", the studies in the present volume examine the manifold interchanges between
learned and popular culture, and its repercussions on magical belief-system and the changing figure of the witch. Book jacket

Communicating with the spirits by Éva Pócs(
Book
)11
editions published
in
2005
in
English
and held by
54 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Focuses on the problem of communication with the other world: the phenomenon of spirit possession and its changing historical
interpretations, the imaginary schemes elaborated for giving accounts of the journeys to the other world and for communicating
with the dead, and finally the historical archetypes of this kind of religious manifestation -- trance prophecy, divination,
and shamanism